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This is a listing of all the news items that have been announced in relation to the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra. News items may consist of awards, public releases, and information about upcoming reminders, such as auditions. |
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 Join the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra on Friday the 1st of August, 7.30pm at the Perth Concert Hall for a lively musical journey with James Morrison and some of his very special friends. During this unique performance James will take you along the path of his incredible career featuring those who have influenced him and performed with him in the past and present. The impressive line-up includes this year’s James Morrison scholarship winner Konrad Paszkudzki on piano and some of the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra’s most successful past members such as trumpeter Mat Jodrell the dynamic jazz diva Libby Hammer and brilliant saxophonist Troy Roberts. |
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| The West Australian Youth Jazz Orchestra Association (Inc.), WAYJO is a not for profit organisation, formed in 1983 as a vehicle to encourage, develop and educate young musicians in the pursuit of excellence in orchestral jazz and improvised music. WAYJO has earned a national and international reputation as Australia’s leading youth jazz orchestra providing an acknowledged centre of excellence in the education of jazz performance, composition and improvisation and the up-skilling of emerging artists both in performance and composition. WAYJO seeks to build on the foundation it has created and continue to achieve excellence in the training and development of young Australian jazz artists and to provide an environment whereby Australian jazz music performance and composition can flourish. This is a newly created position with WAYJO requires someone with experience who is driven and results focused. The Marketing and Sponsorship Coordinator will have a proven track record of attracting new sponsorship, strong networks and the capacity for building effective sponsorships and relationships with diverse stakeholders. This part time position is initially a 6 month contract with the possibility of an extension. For the complete job description, click here. RESPONSIBILITIES
SELECTION CRITERIA ESSENTIAL With prior experience you will be able to demonstrate: 1. Proven marketing, sponsorship and public affairs experience within the arts and/or not-for-profit environment. 2. Strong leadership skills and the ability to work independently. 3. Highly developed skills in event promotion, marketing and/ or events (including sponsorship). 4. Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills with a large range of stakeholders (written and verbal). 5. Demonstrated capacity to attract and engage sponsors appropriate to the organisation. 6. Highly developed organisational skills 7. Highly competent computer skills (including the Microsoft suite, internet etc). DESIRABLE 1. Driver’s licence 2. Understanding of EEO and Occupational Health and Safety requirements as they may affect this role. 3. Relevant tertiary qualifications, vocational training or formal qualifications in public affairs, marketing or events management. An attractive salary PACKAGE will be negotiated for the successful applicant. All applications should contain a cover letter which addresses the Essential Selection Criteria along with a current CV. To submit your application please email admin@wayjo.com or call (08) 9471 1950 for more information Applications close Monday June 9 2008 |
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The WAYJO AGMis to be convened on Tuesday 22 April 2008 at 6:00. |
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The auditions will take place at the WA Academy of Performing Arts 2 Bradford Street, Mount Lawley commencing at 6 pm. Register in the upper foyer. Auditions will be on the following: Scales, sight reading, tone, technique, range on the instrument. Improvisation is optional. Brass auditions include all Trumpets, Trombones, French Horns, Tuba and Euphonium Rhythm section auditions include Piano, Bass, Guitar, Drums, Percussion (tuned & untuned) and vocals Vocalists please bring sheet music for piano and /or rhythm section. No backing tapes There are no set pieces to study and we do not listen to prepared audition pieces - this is primarily a sight reading and scales audition. Audition Forms are only available from 6pm on the day of audition Please note that there is a $10.00 audition fee payable on the day. |
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| Long standing WAYJO member and trumpeter extraordinaire Callum G’Froerer is a Clifford Brown/ Stan Getz Fellowship winner for 2007. Callum missed out on going to New York with WAYJO in 2006 due to pneumonia. But this talented musician just keeps going from strength to strength. A James Morrison finalist for the last two years, Callum plays with a maturity far beyond his years. In 2006 Andrew Murray wrote I’ve got the Melody for Callum and in 2007 Graeme Lyall arranged You Must Believe in Spring to showcase Callums talent. This is definitely a song to listen for at the next WAYJO performance. The Clifford Brown/Stan Getz Fellowship group is a 5 piece combo chosen from a pool of talented 17 and 18 years olds throughout the world. You must be in year 12 or above to be eligible. It provides awards to winners such as a trip to ARTS week in Miami, instruction from renowned jazz artists and educators and the group performs at the IAJE Annual Conference in January. The program boasts a distinguished list of alumni including Harry Connick Jr., Dianne Reeves, Roy Hargrove, and Geoff Keezer. WAYJO’s Trumpet player Callum G’Froerer is the 2nd Australian ever to win the fellowship. The first was Matthew Jodrell in 1996. Both were at WAAPA at the time and both were WAYJO members. There is something magic about the combination of studying and WAAPA and performing in WAYJO with Graeme Lyall as the Artistic Director. Congratulations Callum and it’s great you got your trumpet back!!!! |
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| The WA Youth Jazz Orchestra (WAYJO) is proud to announce a new and exciting community partnership with the Burswood Entertainment Complex . For many years WAYJO has performed for a number of private corporate events held at Burswood. As a world class entertainment precinct Burswood is dedicated to supporting the growth of the Arts in Western Australia. With a special focus on Youth in the Arts, Burswood donates its time and resources to a number of youth initiatives through out the year. Building on this solid relationship and the shared entertainment and community goals of both organisations, WAYJO is delighted with the opportunity to be a community partner with the Burswood Entertainment Complex and looks forward to a long and contunued partnership. |
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| Sunday July 2nd from 5:00 to 7:30 WA Academy of Performing Arts Music Auditorium 2 Bradford ST Mt Lawley All three WAYJO Bands, 5 James Morrison Scholarship Finalists The 2006 James Morrison Scholarship winner This is an opportunity for friends, family and WAYJO supporters to hear the 2006 WAYJO bands in a concert setting at a very special price. In 2006 an unprecedented 5 of the 6 James Morrison Scholarship finalists are from WAYJO and WAAPA and will be featured throughout the concert. Come along to the WA Academy of Performing Arts Music Auditorium on Sunday July 2, 5-7:30 and enjoy the best big band jazz, wonderful young musicians and a great afternoon of music. General Admission $8.00 Friends of the Academy and WAYJO $7.00 Students $5.00 Tickets only avalibile at the door - no credit card facilities |
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| The WA Youth Jazz Orchestra elected new board members at the Annual General Meeting on May 2nd. We give a sad fare well to Dr Geoff Gibbs and Steve Abbott. Both of these board members have given fantastic service to the WAYJO Association and will be greatly missed. We also lost Michell Robinson last year and missed her bright smile, wonderful personallity and all the hard work she did for WAYJO. We miss you Michelle. WAYJO welcomes Lisa Garside and Mike Gasson on to the board. We are very excited about having both of these dedicated and professional people on our board and look forward to the next 12 months. |
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| WAYJO Composer and musician Johannes Luebbers has been awarded the APRA Youth Professional Development Award. In the Five year history of this national program, there have only been 3 Awards given. Each time the recipient has been a WAYJO member. Also each of these musicians has sent a recording of WAYJO performing their works as a component of their nomination package. Johannes was one of the three young composers commissioned by WAYJO to write for the New York performance, Johannes is a very talented composer and arranager. It is wonderful to see his talent recognised nationally. Well done Johannes, |
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| Excerpt from a review by Thomas Conrad Jazz Times Umbria Jazz Melbourne 05 Melbourne, - Australia, Date(s): May 5, 2005 - May 15, 2005 Written By: Thomas Conrad. “Melbourne, Australia, has hosted an international jazz festival since 1998….. There was a lot to like about this festival. It ran smoothly; Australians are perhaps the world’s warmest hosts; Melbourne, in crisp, clear fall weather, provided a stunning modern cityscape for a backdrop. Of course, the music was the point, and it came in three categories: American (including the festival’s headliners Wayne Shorter, John Scofield and Karrin Allyson), Australian and Italian. The music was usually first rate, and the festival contained two genuine revelations: both alto saxophonists, one a schoolboy and one a senior citizen. Francesco Cafiso, 15, has been performing publicly with established international jazz musicians since he was nine……It should be fascinating to watch his future unfold. The other revelation of the festival was Graeme Lyall. In the 1970s he was a prominent figure on the Melbourne jazz and studio scenes, but moved to Western Australia 20 years ago and became a music educator, composer and only rarely a player. He appeared at the Forum with the Joe Chindamo Trio, and it was hypnotic from his first phrase. Imagine Paul Desmond, but quieter, intensely distilled, with a tone even more airy and evanescent. Lyall can silence a large room with a whisper. On “Where Is Love,” his brushing against Lionel Bart’s melody was like an emanation of pure spirit. While his touch is light, it is also precise, and proceeds in ideas that arrive as entirely fresh, yet inevitable. On “Every Breath You Take,” Chindamo creatively decorated around Sting’s song and then Lyall just wafted it, let it float by itself on the air. Graeme Lyall is an artist who possesses vast quantities of a rare quality: grace.” To read the entire review go to the website www.jazztimes.com and look under: reviews/ concert reviews/ Umbria Jazz Melbourne 05 |
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| As the stars twinkle in the bush twilight, 300 people wander into the clearing...well into the Perth Convention Centre for a Knight under the Stars. Yes, Grace Knight came to Perth for a single performance at the newly opened Perth Convention Centre and behind her on the stage playing softly when the delegates arrived was the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra. Bud lights and trees gave the appearance of the Australian Bush, picnic baskets adorned the tables and what does that have to do with Jazz? Not a lot really, but Grace Knight is a STAR and that night she wanted all the delegates to know that the fantastic band behind her were also stars, Australian Stars and these Australian Stars had been invited to New York in January 2006 to represent Australia at the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference. So she wove some Knight magic and Zurich Insurance headed to the stage with an offer of $20,000 and a challenge to NIBA delegates for $1,000.00 each to 'get these fantastic kids to New York'. While 2005 is when we are really kicking off the sponsorship drive we would like to acknowledge Zurich (who started it all) and the delegates that gave us such a great foundation to our fundraising at the final performance for the year at the Hyde Park Hotel on November 29th. Thank you Zurich Financial Services Jardine Lloyd Thompson Pty Ltd EBM Insurance Brokers Telstra eBusiness Services Pty Ltd Wyatt Gallagher Bassett Arthur J Gallagher MGA Insurance Brokers Pty Ltd AON Holdings Australia Limited Delaney Kelly Co Austbrokers Holdings Ltd Philp Newby & Owen Westminster Broking House East West Insurance Brokers IBNA Centro Insurance & Risk Management Willis Australia Limited Stewart Haig Insurance Brokers |
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| Graeme Lyall, the Artistic Director of the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra has been recognized for his service to youth music with an Order of Australia, Member in the Order (AM). Graeme Lyall can rightly be described as an icon in the Australian music industry. In a career spanning over 40 years, he has excelled as a saxophonist of international standing as well as acting as a mentor, confidante and inspiration to hundreds of aspiring young musicians across Australia. Graeme has a long and illustrious career as a musician, arranger, composer, musical director, mentor and university lecturer. His passion for supporting young musicians was evident even in the early stages of his career. Graeme has produced/ arranged/ conducted for a who's who of Australian talent, often employing young instrumentalists in recording sessions to give them exposure to a professional environment. He was a member of groups such as the Daly-Wilson band and the Tommy Tycho Orchestra. In the latter capacity he performed for the Queen at the opening of the Sydney Opera House in 1973 and just over a decade later was the Musical Director for the Royal Gala Concert in the Melbourne Concert Hall during the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Accolades include writing the winning arrangement at the Yamaha International Song Festival four times between 1974 and 1979; arranging and composing television themes such as "Willesee"- and “Special Squad"; composing, arranging and conducting the music for RFL and AFL Grand Finals and winning the Australian Writers and Art Directors Guild Award for the Best Music for a Television Commercial in 1987. High profile engagements include performing as the Musical Director for the Don Lane Show, Logie Awards, Carols by Candlelight and Hey Hey It's Saturday where he literally launched the careers of a number of young musicians. He has composed and arranged for events ranging from the AFL Grand Final to recordings for Olivia Newton-John, Debra Byrne, Colleen Hewitt and Normie Rowe and a plethora of visiting overseas artists including Sammy Davis Jr, Tony Bennett, Tom Jones and Roger Woodward. In his role as Artistic Director of the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra, Graeme has enthusiastically promoted emerging artists. His measure of success is reflected in the range of students who have rapidly moved into the professional music sphere both in Australia and overseas. Four James Morrison Scholarship winners and all the Wyllie Scholarship winners have emerged from within the ranks of WAYJO. In addition WAYJO provides a unique forum for students of composition to write original pieces for ensembles ranging in size from swing bands to full fifty piece orchestras. In addition to the motivation and inspiration he provides to the students, Graeme has established himself as a mentor and confidante to the musicians of the orchestra. The Orchestra’s overall success is rightly attributed to Graeme’s influence. The loyalty he has built up over a period of a few short years is exceptional. Testimony also to his reputation is the involvement of international music "greats" such as Frank Foster from the Count Basie orchestra who was an artist in residence with WAYJO and enthusiastically became a patron of the organisation. WAYJO is delighted to have had the opportunity to nominate this truly gifted and deserving musician and to see Graeme gain national recognition for the outstanding achievement and contribution he has made to youth music. |
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